Can you shave a street tire?
02-17-2006, 05:41 PM
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Can you shave a street tire?
I had an interference fit with a curb recently and really messed up 1 of my Potenza $0-3s. I know I need to replace tires in sets of 4. Can a street tire be shaved down like a race tire can? Anyone think it would be possible to bring in 1 new tire and 1 existing tire and have them shave it down to match?
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02-17-2006, 08:04 PM
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Nice, thanks for the tips. This will be a new tire, and I will have it mounted on my wheel. I will bring two wheels - one with an existing tire to show where it needs to be. Thanks again!
02-19-2006, 12:57 AM
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Tirerack will do it for you. America's Tire(Discount Tire) wouldn't mount my p-zeros because one was brand new, and the others had 10k miles on them. I measured the depth and had tirerack shave a tire to the average depth and it worked great.
02-19-2006, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by illusion
Tirerack will do it for you. America's Tire(Discount Tire) wouldn't mount my p-zeros because one was brand new, and the others had 10k miles on them. I measured the depth and had tirerack shave a tire to the average depth and it worked great.
And thank you to whoever moved my thread for me. I always appreciate people looking out for what I really wanted to do. Shaving a tire is more of a specialized thing than you would normally find in a general tire/wheel forum for the whole USofA, which is why I posted it in my local forum.
Glad people answered my question before it was moved.
Cheers and thanks for the help everyone!
02-19-2006, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by XkrazyAsianX
.... that happened to my es100s ... i just replaced it with a new one ... didn't feel that big of a difference
02-19-2006, 06:30 PM
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If your near castro valley Roger Kraus Racing will do if for you also, just incase it is easier. Also they do race tires and i used to work there and they are very accurate at it.
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